A crowd of about 50 gathered for the brief event, and cheered after the five — incumbents Mary Young and Sam Weaver, and newcomers Cindy Carlisle, Jill Adler Grano and Mirabai Nagle — were sworn in.

The mood in general was a celebratory one, as council members went around hugging supporters in the crowd and joking among each other prior to the swearing-in.

Newly elected Boulder City Councilwoman Mirabai Nagle waves to the crowd during the swearing in of new members at the Boulder Municipal Building on Tuesday morning. (Paul Aiken / Staff Photographer)

There's now a two-thirds majority of women on the nine-member council, and at one point the six women gathered for a photo, and Councilwoman Lisa Morzel shouted "Pussy riot!," invoking the name of the Russian feminist collective.

Young and Weaver were the two leading vote-getters on Election Day, followed, in order, by Grano, Nagle and Carlisle. The first four will each serve four-year terms, while Carlisle will serve a two-year term, as is always the case the fifth-place candidate in the biennial Boulder council race.

Nagle, 34, and Grano, 36, are now the two youngest council members, while Carlisle, 72, is the eldest. Nagle becomes the only Gunbarrel resident on the council, while Grano is thought to be the first openly gay representative serving Boulder in several decades.

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Each of the three new members beamed in post-oath interviews.

"We're excited about what we believe is the majority of the community — those who voted, they came out and supported us," said Carlisle, who also served on the council for one term in the 1980s. "We have a really clear agenda to work for the people of Boulder. That includes all bases, all segments of Boulder."

"I'm ecstatic and just deeply honored," Nagle said. "I can't wait to get going. I'd like to make a really big difference in Boulder."

"I feel great," Grano said. "I hope that we have a lot of common ground that we can work on together."

Carlisle, Grano and Nagle replace members Matt Appelbaum, Jan Burton and Andrew Shoemaker, none of whom were present for the swearing-in. Appelbaum, the former mayor and 18-year councilman, was term-limited; Shoemaker decided not to seek a second term; and Burton, who won a two-year term in 2015, became just the second incumbent in 20 years to lose a re-election bid.

Mayor Suzanne Jones said, on behalf of the rest of the council, "We are thrilled and honored."

"We welcome all the new folks and returning folks to what is an amazing team," she said.

The council adjourned, set to return at 6 tonight for its first meeting, at which the nine members will vote among themselves to appoint either Jones or Young as mayor for the next two years.

Jill Adler Grano hugs Sam Weaver as Cindy Carlisle and Suzanne Jones, right, laugh during the swearing in of newly elected Boulder City Council members at the Boulder Municipal Building on Tuesday morning. (Paul Aiken / Staff Photographer)

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